For those who want to edit locally, it is very advantageous to have a program to access a course page

I have made a set of simple python programs to get/put/create/delete a course page given a URL or in the case of creating both a URL and page title.

 ./ccreate.py https://xxx.instructure.com/courses/xxx/pages/test-3 "Test 3"

creates (ccreate.py) a page with the title "Test 3"

./cdel.py https://xxx.instructure.com/courses/xxx/pages/test-3 "Test 3"

deletes the page (cdel.py)

./cget.py https://xxx.instructure.com/courses/xxx/pages/test-2

gets the page (cget.py) into test-2.html

./cput.py https://xxx.instructure.com/courses/xxx/pages/test-2

put the page (cput.py) into the course

cdel was the last of these to be written, so it has the code for all 4 operations in it, you only need to change which function is called in main and change the number of arguments expected in the case of ccreate.py

Why make these program? Because using cget you can get a course page, edit it with your favourite editor, and then cput it back! Perfecting for using a more powerful editor, such as emacs, on a course page.

You can think about a combination of cget, split a page with your editor to create a new page, then cput the original page back, and ccreate the new page with the title you want it to have.

To get all of the pages for a course you can use the program cgetall.py

One can even think of making a github for all of the pages of a course and thus being able to separately keep a history of all of the changes to any of the pages.